Kudos to the whole team at Yahoo!

Yahoo just released a plug-in free musci player

I know for many people this looks like a small thing. A player. So what. There are tons of them.

I cannot emphasize enough how relevant I think this is. But in fact it is clearly illustrates the needed paradigm shift in media play thinking. All you need is a modern browser - no plugins required for a rich media experience.

For followers and adopters of XSPF, it is highly unlikely that broad adoption of the standard would have ever taken place without a player reference.

Unlike the XSPF player, it's not open source. But supposedly it is quite hackable. We'll see. I'm not so sure I like the idea of my player being hosted outside of my domain (even if it is Yahoo).

My wife and I just watched ONCE, a bloody wonderful movie. In fact one of the best movies we have watched in over 2 years. Probably longer. We LOVED it. The look of the film was real. The acting was natural and familiar. We could see/remember past friendships and relationships played out in the film. And we loved the music. Adored it. We loved the film and music so much, we wanted to buy the sound track right away. Since we have a bit of a hate on for iTunes (FairPlay is NOPLAY in our house), we decided to give Amazon's MP3 service a try.

First: I could buy the sound track on CD but not as an MP3 download. That sucks - I want it now - I'm hooked!
Fortunately Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova recorded most of the sound track as separate album called The Swell Season which is available as a download. Awesome. It's not exactly what I want but close enough.
I download the MP3 manager app, and buy the sound track, except - oh - I'm Canadian. Sorry this service is not available to me. Although I use Amazon.com on a monthly basis, I can not buy downloads. I can buy the physical CD, but not the MP3s.

Nice.

Oh. Look. Limewire has Once for download.

Hello. Who is in charge here. WAKE THE FUCK UP!